The Art of Procrastination

Doing What Needs to Be Done, But on Your Own Terms

Stop fighting with yourself and start flowing with your energy!

How Procrastination Strains Your Life…

Emotional

  • That pit in your stomach when you know something’s overdue, but you can’t bring yourself to do it.

  • The self-loathing spiral that comes with labeling yourself lazy, weak, or broken.

Relational

  • Frustrated partners or friends or teammates who feel you’re unreliable or “checked out.”

  • Avoiding hard conversations until the relationship feels more distant than you meant it to.

Professional

  • Missing deadlines that sabotage your reputation, even though you’re incredibly capable.

  • Feeling guilty when you binge on distractions instead of tackling the mountain of tasks.

What if Procrastination is Trying to HELP?

Maybe burying your head in the sand and waiting for it to blow over (or for someone else to handle it) was what was necessary when you were actually vulnerable & powerless.

Maybe procrastination is like an inner firefighter who’s trying to cool down the system because it’s. just. too. much. right now... and you need a breather.

(Meanwhile, your inner manager is right behind, bombarding you with “SHOULDs.”)

What if there’s more to procrastination than meets the eye?

If this is your psyche’s attempt to help, getting into a power struggle by hurling insults like “lazy” or “pathetic” only makes hard things harder.

How about working WITH procrastination so it can start working FOR you?

(Turn this LOSE–LOSE into a WIN–WIN!)

Who am I to Help?

I’m a Highly Sensitive, hyper-responsible firstborn daughter of immigrants turned therapist & coach for people just like me.

  • I had a very loud inner manager who was relentless in cracking the whip.

  • I was rewarded for being the Good, Easy Kid & Star Student …

  • …but the cost was panic attacks, burnout, resentment, and loneliness.

The flipside of hyperproductivity is hypoproductivity — a pendulum swing between Stuck ON & Stuck OFF. It felt like a civil war between my inner manager & firefighter, with loved ones caught in the crossfire and projects left buried in the rubble.

Some days I barely roll out of bed. Other days I’d drown in guilty pleasures (Hi, New Hobby #53!).

What helped me heal? Learning to thank my body and forgive myself for trying to rest & relax in the only ways it knew how...while teaching it new ways to recover that help me still move forward.

I gave my inner parts new job descriptions so they could finally collaborate instead of clash. The result? Each can do what they do best in taking good care of me — in rest, in play, in work.

And I can help you reach the same flow state.

Benefits of Heeding Your Fire Alarms

Smoke detectors & fire alarms are there for a reason: to tell us that something’s off and needs our attention. If we neglect them too long, their eventual blaring freaks us out because we forgot our training.

Our inner firefighters do the same — they try to protect us, but often (out of sheer panic) douse us with too much water instead of accurately assessing what’s the actual issue and acting accordingly. By paying attention to your stress levels earlier, you:

  • Prevent yourself from shutting down from overwhelm and give yourself permission to take a short, restorative break (guilt-free!) before shame spirals kick in.

  • Speak up about what feels hard instead of silently withdrawing until your partner feels shut out, frustrated, and resentful.

  • Break the reactive cycle of last-minute stress by working with your natural rhythms and build confidence in your true abilities.

  • What procrastination is REALLY about

  • The reasons & feelings driving it from behind the scenes

  • Why judging yourself keeps you STUCK

  • How to work WITH perfectionism so it can work FOR you

  • How to recalibrate your inner smoke detectors so you can take care of what needs attention while protecting your peace

WHAT THIS MINI COURSE COVERS (IN JUST 1 HOUR!):

You don’t need more willpower — you need a new relationship with procrastination!

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If procrastination is one side of the pendulum (inner firefighter), perfectionism is the other (inner manager). The two often tag-team, leaving you stuck between UNDER-doing and OVER-doing.

Instead of playing favorites with one against the other and (accidentally) perpetuate their civil war, best to befriend both!

Transform your inner manager into a wise advisor ally, so you can work with yourself instead of against yourself!

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